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OECD collaboration on tracking AI compute
Countries count AI compute infrastructure as a strategic asset without systematically tracking its distribution, availability and access. Digital Economic Security Lab researchers Vili Lehdonvirta, Boxi Wu and Zoe Jay Hawkins collaborated with OECD researchers Celine Caira and Lucia Russo to help fill this gap by tracking and estimating the availability and global physical distribution of…
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Most Finnish digital public services hosted by U.S. cloud providers
Jaakko Kilpi, Otto Kässi and Vili Lehdonvirta (Lue suomeksi) The Finnish Social Insurance Institution Kela and Finland’s central election information system recently announced that they were migrating digital services from on-premises hosting in Finland to cloud data centres elsewhere in Europe. Cloud hosting can increase service quality and reliability while also generating cost savings. But…
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Finnish data centre census 2025
Kaarlo Liukkonen, Otto Kässi and Vili Lehdonvirta (Lue suomeksi) The data centre industry in Finland is booming. According to industry sources, potential data centre investments may add up to 30 billion euros in the next five years. At the same time, the current economic footprint of the data centre industry remains somewhat opaque. Several organisations…
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Digital Economic Security Seminar – Fall 2025
Organisers/Hosts: Vili Lehdonvirta, Philipp Riederle Sessions: Tuesdays, 1–2pm (UK time), during Oxford term time, via Zoom Participation: Open to researchers and students from any university or research institution. Please apply here if you would like to join the seminar sessions. Fall/Michaelmas Term 2025 *Eastern time is temporarily 9–10am on 28 Oct and 4 Nov, due…
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DIESL in SASE 2025
Philipp Riederle and Kaarlo Liukkonen, members of the DIESL, recently participated in the annual conference of The Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics (SASE), held this year in Montreal. Philipp presented two working papers: “Why is computation centralising? An economic model based on 50 years of data” co-authored with Vili Lehdonvirta, and “User Switching within…
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DIESL Summer Seminar 2025
The Digital Economic Security Lab (DIESL) wrapped up the academic year with its Summer Seminar on 26 June 2025 at Aalto University, in Espoo, Finland. The event brought together DIESL researchers from the Aalto and Oxford Universities, featuring short research presentations on topics including the geography of cloud compute, platform interoperability, the emergent frameworks for…
Digital Economic Security Lab
Professor Vili Lehdonvirta
Aalto University and University of Oxford